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In Staggeringly Poor Taste

Jen | 15.12.2008 16:47

We would imagine that, in the midst of the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, publications aimed at and widely read by serving police officers would show greater sensitivity in the way they talk about fatal shootings by the police.

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But evidently not. The magazine Police Review, in its 14 November edition, decided that the introduction of new rules preventing firearms officers from conferring after a shooting was best illustrated by this appalling cartoon.

Is this how the police view Jean's death too - as little more than the extermination of vermin?

E-mails of complaint to the Police Review Editor, Chris Herbert, at  chris.herbert@janes.com


Taken from and full info at

 http://inquest.justice4jean.org/2008/11/in-staggeringly-poor-taste.html


Jen

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here is the cartoon directly

15.12.2008 20:15

from the Police Review, November 14, 2008
from the Police Review, November 14, 2008

For the OpenOffice-impaired, here is the cartoon:

anon

I notice

15.12.2008 20:50

.. that the figures are white males. Some might say this is just one cartoon and may not reflect the overall attitude of the 'boys in blue'. Be interesting to see the other artwork used in their mags.

anon

Don't really see a problem.

16.12.2008 08:24

The point is to ridicule the idea that saying they are not allowed to talk to each other is going to have any effect or that it's in any way enforceable when the people involved work together and there may be long periods between the event and any trial or hearing.

Admittedly it's not particularly funny, but this is the police's magazine - if it's too subtle they won't get it.

anon